How to Blur Everyone Except One Person in a Video

To blur everyone except yourself, choose Select faces, click Select all, and switch your own entries to Keep. Everyone else should remain marked Hide. This is the usual setup for a presenter filming in a gym, street, event, or shared workspace.

Start from everyone hidden because it is easier to deliberately reveal one person than to remember every bystander you need to cover.

Set up the clip before detection

Finish the basic cut in your regular video editor first. Remove dead time, choose the crop, and export a working copy. Unseen handles the face treatment; it is not the place to assemble a multi-shot edit or add captions.

Open Unseen, choose Local processing or Cloud processing, import the clip, and select Blur, Pixelate, or another suitable method. Click Select faces to open the face list after detection.

The free local mode is convenient for short creator clips. If you are logged in but want local processing, explicitly check the mode card.

Keep every appearance of the presenter

After Select all, scan for the presenter in every thumbnail. A close-up, a distant shot, and a side view may not all be grouped under one entry.

Switch each confirmed presenter entry to Keep. Leave uncertain entries hidden until you can work out who they represent. Accidentally hiding yourself is inconvenient; accidentally revealing a bystander may undermine the whole edit.

For a gym recording, your reflection may be a separate detection. Keep that reflection only if you are sure it is yours. The same applies to a presenter shown on a screen behind the stage.

Watch a crossing in both directions

Consider a street host who steps in front of a passerby. Watch the overlap itself and the frames after they separate. The host should remain visible and the passerby should regain or retain coverage.

Checking only the two clean frames before and after the crossing can miss a brief swap in the middle. If this happens repeatedly, try a more thorough local preset, shorten the shot, or use blur-all for that particular section after cutting it separately.

Why “keep one person” can take longer to review

Blur-all only asks whether any face escaped. Keeping a host visible adds a second question: did the tool keep the correct face?

That extra check is worthwhile when the host's expression matters. It may not be worthwhile for a scenic crowd shot where nobody needs to be recognizable. Use selective versus blur-all to choose per shot.

After rendering, inspect the final downloaded file and any cover frame you plan to use. You should be able to follow the presenter continuously while every other visible face receives the intended treatment.